I just read through some of the reviews in the review section, and yes, I was kidding when I said I was 16 when I wrote Heroes... I thought it would be funny, given the first line. In reality, I think I was 22 or 23--, foolishly I'd signed up for a sort of open mic folk night at a place in downtown LA called Al's Bar. I didnt have any folk songs, having recently emerged from punk rock bands and petty (and not so petty) crime. I was working as a messenger, and a copy of David Bowies record Heroes was stuck in my VW bus' broken cassette player. Until the bus burned in a freak accident that was the only record I could listen to, not having a stereo at home. I put off writing the song until the day of the open mic, and panicking on the way to the show wrote it in the bus. I always intended to make it something other than "Heroes", but it was all I could think of at the time, and Ricketts and then soon after, Aaron, our soon-to-be A&R guy thought it was good, so I just left it. I'm picking songs for that acoustic guitar record I mentioned a while back, (the one with Dean Parks) and thinking maybe I should put that song on there.

DB